Tuscaloosa

Also known as Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

county seat of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States

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Tuscaloosa is a city in Alabama that serves as the main governmental center for Tuscaloosa County. As the county seat, it functions as the administrative hub where county government offices and courts are located.

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Instance of: city in the United States
Official name: Tuscaloosa
Country: United States
Located in: Tuscaloosa County
Population: 99600
Area: 182.216548
Elevation: 68
Time zone: Central Time Zone
Capital of: Alabama
Official website: www.tuscaloosa.com
Image: Tuscaloosa Greensboro Avenue.jpg
Households: 36749
Dialing code: 205

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twinned administrative body: Narashino
Commons category: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
topic's main category: Category:Tuscaloosa, Alabama
category of associated people: Category:People from Tuscaloosa, Alabama
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Tuscaloosa
category for people born here: Category:Births in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
native label: City of Tuscaloosa
inception: 1819-12-13
postal code: 35487
different from: Tuskaloosa
water as percent of area: 14.3847
P8168: Kezidkurya
water area: 26.211286
per capita income: 26891
mean age: 29.5
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
P12749: Rus'–Byzantine War of 1043

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Encyclopedic overview

Tuscaloosa (/ˌtʌskəˈluːsə/ TUS-kə-LOO-sə) is a city in and the county seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-most populous city, the population was 99,600 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 114,288 in 2025. It was known as Tuskaloosa until the early 20th century. It is also known as "the Druid City" because of the numerous water oaks planted in its downtown streets since the 1840s.

Incorporated on December 13, 1819, it was named after Tuskaloosa, the chief of a band of Muskogean-speaking people defeated by the forces of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1540 in the Battle of Mabila, in what is now central Alabama. It served as Alabama's capital city from 1826 to 1846, where in 1846 it was moved to its present location in Montgomery.

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